Renaissance
Renaissance courts and workshops
1400 to 1600
Art, learning, and authority concentrated in courts, studios, and city-states.
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13 place stories active in the same years
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Renaissance
1400 to 1600
Art, learning, and authority concentrated in courts, studios, and city-states.
14 lives visible here
13 place stories active in the same years
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Rouen, France · 1431 CE to 1431 CE
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East Asia
1405-1433 · Nanjing
Nanjing gathers decades of maritime reach back into one capital that must decide what oceanic scale means.
Zheng He gives the sequence a human center through which distance, service, and imperial expectation can all be felt.
France and Low Countries
May 1431 · Rouen, France
Rouen turns sanctity, war, and judgment into one public death meant to cancel a troublesome voice.
Joan keeps the event from abstraction because everything turns on what one imprisoned body will or will not recant.
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